Friday, March 17, 2017

The last stitch

Has been put into my daily circle quilt. Nothing was going to come between me and a finish today and seeing that it is FNSI tonight I headed straight to my sewing room after breakfast to make an early start just in case the day came "crashing down" around me again. Yahooo!!!! Here it is. The photo shoot was done inside due to the size of the quilt and also it is raining.

Some statistics regarding the quilt -

Each square was cut 4 ½” to finish at 4”. There are 366 squares with 3" circles on them
which represents something that I did or
happened each day. There are 12 squares with letters on them to represent
the beginning of each month making a total of 378 squares. The quilt ended up being 72” x 84”.
I joined 3 rows at a time,
quilted them then joined the
backing and next three rows using the QAYG method without sashing as I wanted
to see the whole year complete rather than looking at smaller sections that
would have been created if sashing had been used and therefore broken that
continuity.

I found out about 365 daily circles while doing some blog hopping and started the first
of my circles back in March 2016 making this a 12 month project. I did find it very “addictive” and really
enjoyed having an excuse to play around with my scraps to find the “right”
piece to represent each day. The process of putting it together became very boring
towards the end and I was pleased to put in the last stitch. I knew while making the
blocks and leaving the construction all to the end would be major work
but I was not sure how I wanted to put the blocks together. At one stage the thought was to put 6 months on
the front and 6 months on the back and then one day there was a “light bulb”
moment when I saw a scrap piece of fabric with letters on it
which then gave me the idea to use those letters to represent each month to create a "calendar". It is named “This was 2016”.

27 comments:

OMG! What an awesome quilt! I love how it represents each day of your life in 2016/17. I would love to try circles but I can never seem to get them perfectly round. Great idea using the QAYG method. You should be very proud of yourself girl!

Wow, what a mission and an achievement! I did a similar thing with a snail mail group, but we just made a block for each month - but had to make the same block 6 times to send out to all the other participants.